diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 06f21064b6..d70de76906 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@
     SportBoxEmbedIE,
 )
 from .sportdeutschland import SportDeutschlandIE
+from .sportschau import SportschauIE
 from .srf import SrfIE
 from .srmediathek import SRMediathekIE
 from .ssa import SSAIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/sportschau.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/sportschau.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ff30e1f0e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/sportschau.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class SportschauIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'Sportschau'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?sportschau\.de/\w+(?:/\w+)?/video(?P<id>\w+)\.html'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.sportschau.de/tourdefrance/videoseppeltkokainhatnichtsmitklassischemdopingzutun100.html',
+        'md5': 'a6ef460ab9f4089b079832e06d554cec',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'seppeltkokainhatnichtsmitklassischemdopingzutun100',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Seppelt: "Kokain hat nichts mit klassischem Doping zu tun" - Tour de France - sportschau.de',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+            'description': 'Der ARD-Doping Experte Hajo Seppelt gibt seine Einschätzung zum ersten Dopingfall der diesjährigen Tour de France um den Italiener Luca Paolini ab.',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        ext = '-mc_defaultQuality-h.json'
+        json_url = url[:-5] + ext
+
+        json = self._download_json(json_url, video_id)
+        thumb_url = json['_previewImage']
+
+        m3u8_url = json['_mediaArray'][1]['_mediaStreamArray'][0]['_stream'][0]
+        m3u8_formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(m3u8_url, video_id, ext="mp4")
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', webpage, 'title')
+        desc = self._html_search_meta('description', webpage)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': m3u8_formats,
+            'description': desc,
+            'thumbnail': thumb_url,
+        }